Dictionary: UN-GUIC'U-LAR – UN-HAND'SOME-NESS

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UN-GUIC'U-LAR, a. [L. unguis, the nail.]

In botany, the length of the human nails, or half an inch. Lee. Martyn.

UN-GUIC'U-LATE, or UN-GUIC'U-LA-TED, a. [L. unguis, a claw.]

  1. Clawed; having claws. Encyc.
  2. In botany, clawed; having a narrow base; as the petal in a polypetalous corol. Martyn.

UN-GUID'ED, a.

  1. Not guided; not led or conducted.
  2. Not regulated.

UN-GUID'ED-LY, adv.

Without a guide.

UN-GUILT'I-LY, adv.

Without guilt.

UN-GUILT'Y, a. [ungilt'y.]

Not guilty; not stained with crime; innocent. Spenser.

UN'GUIN-OUS, a. [L. unguinosus.]

Oily; unctuous; consisting of fat or oil, or resembling it. Foster, North. Voyages.

UN'GU-LA, n. [L. a hoof.]

In geometry, a section or part of a cylinder, cut off by a plane oblique to the base.

UN'GU-LATE, a.

Shaped like a hoof.

UN-HAB'IT-A-BLE, a. [Fr. inhabitable; L. inhabitabilis, inhabito.]

That can not be inhabited by human beings; uninhabitable. [The latter word is generally used.]

UN-HAB-IT'U-A-TED, a.

Not habituated; not accustomed. Tooke.

UN-HACK'ED, a.

Not hacked; not cut, notched or mangled. Shak.

UN-HACK'NEY-ED, a.

Not hackneyed; not much used or practiced.

UN-HALE', a.

Unsound; not entire; not healthy.

UN-HAL'LOW, v.t.

To profane; to desecrate. The vanity unhallows the virtue. L'Estrange.

UN-HAL'LOW-ED, pp.

  1. Profaned; deprived of its sacred character.
  2. adj. Profane; unholy; impure; wicked. Milton. Dryden. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence–is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.

UN-HAL'LOW-ING, ppr.

Profaning; desecrating.

UN-HAND', v.t.

To loose from the hand; to let go. Shak

UN-HAND'ED, pp.

Loosed from the hand; let go.

UN-HAND'I-LY, adv.

Awkwardly; clumsily.

UN-HAND'I-NESS, n.

Want of dexterity; clumsiness.

UN-HAND'LED, a.

Not handled; not treated; not touched. Shak.

UN-HAND'SOME, a.

  1. Ungraceful; not beautiful. I can not admit that there is any thing unhandsome or irregular in the globe. Woodward.
  2. Unfair; illiberal; disingenuous.
  3. Uncivil; unpolite.

UN-HAND'SOME-LY, adv.

  1. Inelegantly; ungracefully.
  2. Illiberally; unfairly.
  3. Uncivilly; unpolitely.

UN-HAND'SOME-NESS, n.

  1. Want of beauty and elegance.
  2. Unfairness; disingenuousness.
  3. Incivility.